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Monday, August 30, 2010
LOOKIE WHAT I FINISHED!

Wow! A finished summer sweater, and summer’s not even over, yet! (Wow! Two posts in a single month!)





The only real trouble is having taken measurements in January or February (whenever it was that I actually started this little top), but finishing the thing at the tail end of August. Makes for a bit of a “belly shirt”. Which is A-OK, according to the kid who’s wearing it…which is mainly a sign of relief, I think, that it’s actually done and able to be worn while it’s still hot! This was actually a quick knit…it’s been knit and blocked for MONTHS. I just had this thing about actually sitting down and seaming it up. (Which really didn’t take long, once I actually had a needle threaded.) I knit it in Nova “Sari” cotton DK. Lovely sheen. Let me know if you’d like to see a shade card for this, as it’s not a yarn I have listed on my “Yarn” page. Here’s the pattern I used, which has a cute short-sleeved option:



I made the ties a wee bit shorter, to keep them a bit more out of the way than I think they’d otherwise be. Overall, a nice little knit that would go with pretty much anything summery.

And it’s sure been summery!! Hot, hot, and hot…sun, sun, and sun. Just like I like it. My sunflowers are blooming, even though they were planted late, and I’m in love. One was even ready for a rendition of our wedding cake for an anniversary dinner…the first time I’ve made it in thirteen years (a lucky baker’s dozen)! I just made the 8” top tier…chewy almond layers with Chambord-laced mascarpone filling, sprinkled with blackberries and raspberries. Mmmmmm.



I’m getting hungry just looking at it. But, no rest for the wicked! I’m off to paint on a porch while the weather’s still warm enough to cure the paint properly!!!
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
BYE JULY



(My blue-podded peas with their delicious-smelling flowers before they crisped up in the heat.)

Whoa. This is getting serious. Missing a whole month? Well, missing it here, anyway. Living it fully for REAL.

July? July was hot. And sunny. And full of summer fun. Can I just say that I love summer?? Among the museum jaunting, the ice cream making, the flower cutting, the record (yes, vinyl) shopping, the gardening (and processing of the goods), the book reading, and the pot-lucking, there has been some knitting! (Gasp!) I finished the pair of mitts I alluded to in my last post. Somehow they morphed along the way from full-fledged mitts to fingerless mitts. (Don’t ask…something to do with accidentally not switching to the larger needle size after the cuff, and a resulting gauge issue messing with a nice, as-the-pattern-photo-shows mitt tip…thus, why knit a tip? They’re great fingerless mitts…and it almost seems like I planned them that way!) Pardon the lack of blocking:



Still think I really ought to get back to this pattern, as I still love it, and knit the actual mitts. The pattern is from “Kristin Knits” by Kristen Nicholas. I’ve always loved Kristen Nicholas’s way with color and motifs…

I’ve done a few finishing touches here and there on a summer tank top that still isn’t quite done. I guess I feel I have to keep up the tradition of giving the summer sweater to its kid as soon as summer is over. Sigh.

But. I did get a cute little beret done out of some luscious ‘Patagonia’ thick-and-thin cotton. Lopi pattern…and would fit an adult with a couple more rounds done in the main body section. This was GREAT picnic blanket knitting.



We’ve just found our new favorite beach. And though it’s not 5 minutes away like our old beach used to be, it’s still close enough. Close enough for plenty more picnic blanket knitting. (Though I’m happy to set up that blanket on our lawn each day, too.)

Hope your summer is going well!!




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